The music is glorious and its hero is on a philosophical journey, as Wagner was his entire life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So8F3QToniI If you enjoy the prelude, try the entire opera when you have about 5 hours. read more
At a period when the Paris Opera company were still singing the foreign repertoire in French and using the sets of Wagner productions from the beginning of the century, the soloists and chorus from Stuttgart Opera, conducted by Ferdinand Leitner, were invited to come and give three performances of Parsifal on 24 th, 25 th and 28 th March 1954, at the Palais Garnier and, for the first time ever, in German. read more